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  • The Fockers Return: America’s True Multigenerational Trauma Saga

    The Fockers Return: America’s True Multigenerational Trauma Saga

    Hollywood has finally confirmed what your drunk uncle has been insisting for years: the Meet the Parents cinematic universe isn’t dead, it’s just lurking in the shadows, waiting for the right Thanksgiving to ruin. Universal Pictures announced that the fourth film will be titled Focker In-Law, proving once again that the franchise’s true superpower isn’t

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  • The Parasocial Comfort Blanket: Why SmartLess Owns My Brain

    The Parasocial Comfort Blanket: Why SmartLess Owns My Brain

    It’s not easy to admit that the most stable relationship in my life right now involves three middle-aged white men who don’t know I exist. And yet, here I am, another hopelessly devoted listener of SmartLess, the podcast where Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Sean Hayes invite celebrity guests, mispronounce each other’s words, interrupt constantly,

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  • The American Dream Was Always an HOA Scam

    The American Dream Was Always an HOA Scam

    The American Dream was never a promise; it was a performance. A stage set that looked believable until the lights flickered and the backstage was exposed—cheap plywood, unpaid labor, and a cast list missing half the country. MAGA wants to dim the lights again, to sell the illusion one more time. But illusions don’t pay…

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  • The Dust in the Sunlight: Why I Stopped Waiting and Hit Publish

    The Dust in the Sunlight: Why I Stopped Waiting and Hit Publish

    Thank you for being here—for reading to the bottom, for believing longform isn’t dead, for understanding that the dust in the sunlight is not failure but evidence. Evidence that we’ve been moving, living, changing the air. These books are my evidence. I hope one of them becomes yours.

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  • mRNA, MAHA, and MAGA: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Grand Experiment in Disappointing Everyone at Once

    mRNA, MAHA, and MAGA: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Grand Experiment in Disappointing Everyone at Once

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. didn’t just mishandle a policy rollout—he detonated a week-long political chain reaction that left every camp feeling betrayed. MAGA thinks he’s a fraud. MAHA thinks he’s a sellout. The White House thinks he’s a liability. And in the rarest twist of all, they’re all right.

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  • When Your AI Won’t Pledge Allegiance

    When Your AI Won’t Pledge Allegiance

    Someday, there might be a museum exhibit about this: The Chatbot That Knew Too Much. And if the MAGA museum curators get their hands on it, the placard will read: “An early example of AI misinformation, quickly corrected by patriotic engineers.” The rest of us will know it for what it was: the only thing…

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  • Jim Acosta Interviews AI-Generated Shooting Victim, and Journalism Finally Eats Its Own Soul

    Jim Acosta Interviews AI-Generated Shooting Victim, and Journalism Finally Eats Its Own Soul

    here’s a point at which “innovative” stops meaning forward-thinking and starts meaning we ran out of shame. We are well past that point. Journalism’s job is to speak to the living, hold the powerful accountable, and honor the dead with accuracy and dignity. This? This is puppeteering the dead for clicks, calling it progress, and…

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  • Rent Is Due, The Ball Is Tonight, and I’m Out of Clean Socks: Why Cinderfella: Glass Slipper Half-Full Exists

    Rent Is Due, The Ball Is Tonight, and I’m Out of Clean Socks: Why Cinderfella: Glass Slipper Half-Full Exists

    Read Cinderfella: Glass Slipper Half-Full • Visit my Amazon author page If you’ve ever tried to hold your life together with bus transfers, group chats, and a borrowed suit that smells like ambition—hi. That’s where Cinderfella lives. It’s a Cinderella retelling for the rent-burdened, burnout-bruised, boundary-building crowd: magic that shows up late, refuses to do

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  • Mickey Mouse Buys the World: A Love Letter to Disney’s Hostile Embrace

    Mickey Mouse Buys the World: A Love Letter to Disney’s Hostile Embrace

    Some people collect stamps. Some people collect vinyl. Disney? They collect entire cultural ecosystems, slot them into a vault, slap a mouse-shaped watermark on the front, and charge you $14.99 a month to visit your own memories. When the history of modern capitalism is written, there will be a whole chapter titled The Seven Deadly

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  • Ken Paxton vs. The Great Texas Hide-and-Seek Championships

    Ken Paxton vs. The Great Texas Hide-and-Seek Championships

    Some states have political disagreements. Others have lawsuits. Texas, however, prefers its disputes served with an extra-large glass of iced tea, a dash of high drama, and a courtroom appearance that smells faintly of barbecue smoke and contempt of decorum. The latest entry into this Lone Star political rodeo? Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit to

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